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¹ Don't rejoice, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for you have prostituted [away] from your God; you have loved hire on every grain-floor.² The threshing-floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.³ They shall not dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.⁴ They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Yahweh, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Yahweh.⁵ What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?⁶ For, look, they have gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷ The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that has the spirit is insane, for the abundance of your iniquity, and because the enmity is great.⁸ Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house of his God.⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became detestable things like that which they loved.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.¹² Though they bring up their sons, yet I will bereave them, so that man shall not be left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!¹³ I saw Ephraim as a grove of palm trees planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the slayer.¹⁴ Give them, O Yahweh-what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.¹⁵ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet I will slay the beloved fruit of their womb.¹⁷ My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.